Today while having lunch with Ty and our gang, I look around in the canteen for Asher. I've never seen him in the canteen having lunch. So does he bring lunch from home? "Guys, I'm leaving. I've to go somewhere," Ty says and gets up with his plate. "Oh..you already finished?" I ask surprised. He is actually a slow eater. He finished his plate too quickly today. "Yeah..," he says and leaves before I could ask him where he was going. After I finish my lunch, I walk in direction of the computer lab. My laptop was with me in my bag but Aaron had left his in his locker. So he went to grab it from there. I reach the lab and boot my laptop, soon going to our gaming software. Aaron doesn't arrive even after five minutes. Deciding to call him, I fish my phone out of my pocket. But, right then he rushes in with his laptop in one hand and a paper in the other hand. He has a kind of puzzled look on his face. "What's wrong?" I ask him, frowning. He hands me the piece of paper, taking a
I stop in the corridors, a frown taking over my features as I see in the distance a crowd gathered around our football ground. I can see someone running around and all are looking at the person. And a lot of people are barging towards the ground to see whatever is happening there. I was actually walking to my last hour, biology which is on the first floor near the football ground. It's almost time for the bell. But I can't help my curiosity. Is some running competition happening on the ground? But why so randomly? I walk down the corridors and take the steps down to the ground. I can't see anything due to the crowd. I push a few people standing in front of me and somehow get to the front, only to get stunned at the sight. It is Asher who is running around. And he looks extremely tired. His feet aren't stable and he looks like he is about to fall. "What is happening?" It comes out of my mouth like a whisper because of shock. But the next moment, I manage to shout the same thing
"So Caroline, you are confirming that the principal or any other staff at school didn't try to threaten you or your friend by dismissal or suspension or any other means after the incident?" The young female police constable sitting in front of me asks. "No," I shake my head. "And they said they'll pay compensation to your friend?" She asks. "Yes," I nod. "Okay, thank you for cooperating with us, Caroline. Your friend told us the same. We'll be taking the necessary actions immediately. There's no need to worry about anything," She smiles and gets up from the couch. I nod and get up along with Ty and his parents. "If you or your friend face any problem from the school authorities in the future, you can call us at this number," the middle-aged male police officer along with her says handing me a card. "Sure, thank you," I nod taking the card from his hands. Soon, uncle walks them out of the house and Ty's Mom leaves a relieved sigh. So, the thing is, the video from the foot
The second hour, I had chemistry. As soon as the bell rings, I rush out of Mrs. Cooper's classroom and hurriedly walk in direction of chemistry class, not wanting to be stopped by the people in the corridors. I had turned the left corridor near our Sports teacher's cabin and was quickly walking forward. Suddenly a hand seeps out of nowhere and grabs my right wrist before pulling me into a comparatively dark space. To say I was shocked will be an understatement. Imagine someone suddenly pulling you inside a dark room. I look up from my hand with a heavily thudding heart. My heart beat only races even further on seeing who was standing in front of me. It was Asher. And soon I realize I'm inside the sports store room. A lot of basketballs, footballs, and other items were around me. "What the heck!" I scoff looking at Asher. He just stares at me. "Why did you pull me inside here?" I ask "Cause there's something I need to discuss with you," he replies placing a hand on the wall beh
"So, we aren't working on our video game at lunch break?" "I need to finish the assignment. I don't want to disappoint Mr. Davis. But you can work on that new design alone. After school, let's stay back and work together," I say, grabbing my chemistry textbook from my bag. Aaron nods to me with a frown. "So, what were you doing yesterday whole night?" "Just slept. I was so tired," I say opening my textbook to the chapter we were currently dealing with before pretending to read it. I didn't want Aaron to ask me more questions. Fortunately, Mr. Henry soon arrives and starts the class. Although Ty's gang, especially Brent was dying to ask me a lot of questions during lunch, I quickly finish my plate and excuse myself, saying I need to finish my English assignment. Then I rush towards the back garden of our school, cause it had already past 1 pm. I reach the place to see Asher sitting under a tree with a book open in his hands. It was easy to spot him cause there was no one else
Although I asked Aaron to wait for me in the parking lot, he comes searching for me in direction of the biology class. I meet him just below the stairs. "Are you okay? Let me hold your bag?" He says proceeding to grab my bag from my shoulder. "I'm fine, silly," I sigh and smack him gently on the arm, causing him to frown. "I thought you weren't alright. And you were in a really bad mood afternoon. You just got up and went to the front like that. I thought you were mad at me," he says with a confused face. "I'm not mad at you or anything. I didn't know what else to do. I can't ask Rhett to give you the seat. You know, we all have lunch together. He's also like my friend," I reply. "Yeah, I understand.." he nods. "But what are you going to do now? Ty's friends are all trying to hit on you? Whom will you choose?" "Rhett doesn't have a crush on me or anything, although I think Brent does." "I bet they are competing on who could make you their girlfriend first," he says makin
I and Asher don't talk much on our ride back home. I didn't know what to talk to him. After all, we've only got a little close now after being great enemies for two weeks. Also, Asher switches on his car stereo, playing some melody songs from his playlist. So we have a more or less silent ride, listening to the songs. However, the atmosphere inside the car is a lot less awkward than before. "Thanks for the ride," I say unbuckling my seat belt as Asher pulls the car near our gates. He doesn't give a reply. So I hop out mumbling a 'Bye.' After he drives away, I walk towards our front door. It wasn't locked, so I walk in and close the door before walking upstairs, directly to Ty's room. He thinks I won't come until 6 Pm. Let's scare him. I slowly walk up to Ty's room door and quietly grab the doorknob before quickly twisting it and pulling the door open, barging in with a loud scream. Ty was lying on his bed on his stomach, facing the opposite direction from the door. Still his whole
"What's happening?" Aaron and I looked at each other not knowing what was happening inside the Geography class. Anyway, some kind of word fight is happening. We could hear loud shouting and yelling from inside. But what kind of argument this early during the first period? "C'mon.. let's go check!" Aaron said and rushed to the class. I quickly followed him. We stepped into the class to see a lot of people, especially girls crowded in the center. Two girls were bickering loudly between each other. We couldn't see who they were as the other girls were standing around, blocking the view. The few boys crammed around were amusedly watching the fight, all set to hype if the girls start physically beating each other. Suddenly one of the girls said Aaron's name, causing me to frown. Does he have something to do with this fight ?? "Yeah! Aaron is here. Let's ask him itself," one of the girls in the crowd said. "What's happening?" Aaron asked looking at the girls, puzzled. The gi
4 years later I lean back on my chair and let out a yawn after deleting the account 'prettylul._' from Featurefolio. Now, I can freely delete any account from FF at any time. Because I'm now a Cyber security consultant at Featurefolio. This particular account I deleted now has been reported a lot of times in the last few days. Today I did a thorough investigation of the account before finally deciding to delete it. I shut down my laptop and avert my eyes to Asher's alarm clock sitting on the bedside table beside our photograph that was taken last month during Asher's graduation. The clock is five minutes fast and it shows 11:40 Pm. That means there are still 25 minutes left for me to turn 22. Yeah, it's my birthday tomorrow. And it's my first birthday that Asher is going to miss after we started dating four years ago. I still vividly remember my 18th birthday. Asher had just gone to the university. My birthday was on a Wednesday. So, I told him not to come home to wish me b
Rubbing my eyes and letting out a yawn, I sheepishly stroll down the Corridors and walk towards the students' parking lot, feeling exhausted as hell. The last two hours were History and Geography. Both I share with Ty and he didn't even let me blink an eye during both classes which were as boring as beans. Mr. Cooper still teaches us History. And instead of Mr. William, we now have Mrs. Garcia for Geography. She is so old and we can't even understand properly what she is saying if we don't keep looking at her mouth. But Ty still can be attentive in her class and he expects me to do the same. Before leaving, Asher told him to keep an eye on me and make sure I'm studying properly. Ty took his words too seriously. I've now notebooks for every subject to take down lecture notes. If this goes on like this, I think I'll score more marks than him in the semester exams. I fish my phone from my pocket and switch it on, only for it to start vibrating continuously in my hands as notificatio
"Is it actually real?" With a wide open mouth, I lean forward on my chair and scrunch my eyebrows, reading through the content of the mail again. It's a mail from Galaxy, one of the most famous shopping apps in the world. Their company had recently offered a bug bounty program and I had just participated in it. I was able to find a critical bug in their site. Now I've received a mail from the company, saying I won price money of $50,000. I look at the mail address again. It's Galaxy's official mail itself. This can't be fake. But why would they pay me this huge amount? I really didn't expect anything more than $5000. I keep on looking at the screen in disbelief. Wait! Let me check my account. I quickly grab my phone and tap on my banking app. Soon I find that fifty thousand dollars was credited to my account two hours ago. Wow! I lean back on my chair, laughing in surprise and excitement. Then I proceed to video call Asher to tell him the news. It's past 9 Pm, so he might be bac
"Oh c'mon Ann, how many times should I beg you to help me out with this?" Aaron groans averting his gaze from his laptop screen and looking at me. "Wait for some time. Can't you see she is busy here?" Asher says whilst swallowing down the food in his mouth. Aaron leaves a sigh. "Why are you feeding him like he is a baby? He still has a perfectly functioning left hand." Asher ignores him and opens his mouth again, tilting his face to me. I lift the fork to his mouth and he leans in and takes the Fried rice before starting to chew again. So, apparently, Asher wanted to have fried rice and ham before he go to university. So we got all the ingredients from the store and he made us (me, Ty and Aaron) cook for him under his supervision. We all ate it for lunch and it was delicious. Now it's evening and I'm sitting on the couch in Asher's living room, feeding him the leftover fried rice from noon as he wanted to have it again. And he wanted me to feed it to him. The wound in his right ha
I press the enter key on my keyboard and tap my feet impatiently on the floor, waiting for the rank list of the selected candidates to Amistdale University to load on my laptop screen. I bite my lips as finally, the list of selected students in Business management and marketing major appears in front of my eyes. I take a breath before I start running my eyes down the list. I get anxious as I don't see Asher's name on the first page. Praying his name is on the next page, I scroll down and I see his name lying on the top itself. Letting out a sigh, I lean back on my chair. So, he is selected. Now the task is to convince him to join the university. I get up from the chair and walk to my cupboard. I open it and fish out a jeans and a top from it before quickly changing into them. Then I grab my phone from my table and walk out of my room toward Ty's room. "Guys, I'm going to Asher's house," I say, opening Ty's room door, only to witness the sight of Aaron hovering over Ty on his
"Ty, are you asleep?" I whisper turning on my side. "No.." he says. "Why aren't you sleeping?" "I can't sleep." "Why?" "I don't know," I leave a sigh. "Why can't you sleep?" "Aaron and Asher are in one room." "Yeah.." "Don't know when they'll both start fighting." "I'm also a little worried. Aaron has a really stupid mouth sometimes." "It's just he doesn't know to hide things. He says everything that comes to his mind," Ty defends. "Yeah, that's the problem," I sigh and close my eyes. We all are in my home right now and it is night. We arrived here evening and I showed Asher and Aaron around my home. Then we had dinner with my parents and we watched a movie and played a lot of games in my room. When it got past midnight, my Dad came to my room and announced that I and Ty are sleeping in one room and Aaron and Asher will share another room. And he made them both move to the other bedroom, saying it was late. Now it's more than an hour after that, but I still can
4 months later. "Oh C'mon, is that how you pose? Smile!" Ty sighs, looking up from the camera in his hands. It's a Canon EOS 60D camera Aaron bought for him with his second salary. "And move that hat a little to the left." Asher fixes the graduation hat properly on his head and raises the diploma certificate in his hands a little before spreading his lips wide. "Wow! What a weird smile!" Aaron laughs beside Ty. "Hey Snow, look at me," I smile at Asher. "I love you." His lips immediately bunch into a natural beautiful smile. At that very moment, Ty snaps a picture. "That was good," he laughs looking up from the camera. "Now you both stand together." I giggle and rush to Asher, wrapping my hands around his arms, and pulling him close to me. He smiles, tilting his face and looking at my eyes. "Now do a different pose," Ty says after clicking a few shots. I lean in and press my lips on his cheeks causing Aaron and Ty to laugh whilst snapping a lot of pics. After we both do a lot
I wake up from my sleep, hearing some familiar tunes. Soon I realize it's my and Asher's phone ringing on the bedside table. Wait! why are both of our phones ringing together? "Hey, Wake up!" I shake Asher, lifting my hands from where it was pressed up against his chest. His arms were still wrapped tightly around my body and we both were still in our underwear with the duvet covering us. We had cuddled to sleep after what happened earlier. Asher groans, taking his hands away from my body and rolling onto his back. Soon I hear the sound of the doorbell. Our phones are also still ringing on the bedside table. Shit! It's probably Ty and Aaron. I quickly remove the duvet piece from over my body and crawl towards the table. And like I guessed, my phone shows 'Ty' on caller Id while Asher's shows 'Idiot.' And the doorbell is now going off like crazy. It's definitely Aaron who is ringing it. "WAKE UP ASHER AND GET DRESSED!" I shout, grabbing my frock from the table before hastily
"Hop in," Asher says smiling wide at me. I laugh looking at his white t-shirt with 'Mostly sweet. Sometimes savage' written on it. Underneath it, he was wearing a short beige colored shorts that freely exposed his milky thighs. I wanted to keep staring at those muscular thighs but I quickly look away and hop into the passenger seat. I had to fight with myself to not look at his legs as he drove. I didn't know he had such short shorts. It was like he purposefully wore it today to seduce me. Within two minutes, we reach his home. His house is only a little away from us. I had told him I'd walk there. But he insisted he'd come and pick me up. "What all books did you bring with you?" He asks as we hop out. "Geography and Biology," I reply. "Let's study Biology first. I like Biology more than Geography," he says walking to the front doors. I nod and follow him. He jams the key into the hole and pushes the door open. We go to his room upstairs and sit down on his bed. I fish m